Read before you apply
Begin with the Registrar’s instructions on admission and registration, then consult the Ordinance for the responsibilities of students and examining panels.
The Meridian Library · established 2901
Library & archives
Twenty-four public readings from the founding offices, Meridian Library, Academic Board and teaching schools. The collection follows the Academy from Soren’s first shared classroom to the current course and assessment system.
At the reading desk
What brings you to the library?
The founding register
The 2891 opening leaf predates the Meridian Library. Its bound original remains in the Academy register series.
Read the original leaf →Ways into the collection
Building the Academy
The shared rooms of 2891, the first commissioning return, the library’s opening instructions and the Great Hall handover.
Begin with Soren’s memorandum →Learning from an incomplete record
The Tyrol memorial, its limits as a teaching source, and the requirement for an assessment decision supported by evidence.
Read the teaching note →At the seminar table
Five case papers examine a missing delivery, an overdue vessel, a limited relief offer, a conditional escort and an interrupted command.
Open the cargo case →Becoming a student
The admissions instructions explain offers, acceptance, registration and the record of completed study.
Read the Registrar’s instructions →24 of 24 entries
GovernanceLAA / ORD–2956 / 012956
Academic government
Academy Ordinance
This Ordinance sets out the responsibilities of Lex Astra Academy in instruction, examination, academic government and discipline. It is to be read with the published requirements of each programme and the instruments governing the Academy’s constitution. Earlier instruments remain in the archive; this consolidated reading text does not purport to reproduce the founding Charter in full.
Case paperLAA / 2956 / RECEPTION-CASE2956
Teaching cases
Case CS–3: one berth remaining
A reception problem requires a team to state the limits of its transport offer.
Case paperLAA / 2956 / WATCH-RELIEF-CASE2956
Teaching cases
Case CT–2: relieving an unavailable commander
The command programme examines whether an operation can continue when its author leaves.
Case paperLAA / 2956 / CONVOY-CASE2956
Teaching cases
Case FO–7: the vessel that misses assembly
A convoy seminar examines an overdue check-in without assuming hostile action.
Case paperLAA / 2956 / CARGO-CASE2956
Teaching cases
Case IO–4: the incomplete delivery
A cargo exercise uses the 1968 waybill’s distinction between dispatch and receipt.
Case paperLAA / 2956 / ASSISTANCE-CASE2956
Teaching cases
Case SO–6: an escort offered on conditions
A proposed agreement tests the difference between accepting help and surrendering authority.
AddressLAA / 2951 / COMMANDANT-CHARGE2951
Academic government
Charge to the heads of instruction
The fourth Commandant sets out the first requests of her tenure.
Ceremonial instructionsLAA / 2956 / LAMP-CUSTODY2956
Buildings & traditions
Custody of the induction lamps
Practical instructions accompany the current induction ceremony.
Handover recordLAA / 2914 / HALL-HANDOVER2914
Buildings & traditions
Great Hall: handover to the teaching offices
The Great Hall enters Academy use with instructions for lectures, assemblies and the movement of furniture.
Admissions regulationsLAA / 2956 / ADMISSIONS-INSTRUCTIONS2956
Academic government
Instructions for admissions and course registration
The Registrar separates review of an applicant from the confirmation of a teaching place.
GovernanceLAA / REG–2956 / 042956
Academic government
Keeping the Academy register
The register connects instruction to the authority that follows it. The bound series and its electronic index must be able to tell the same history without erasing an earlier error.
Board minuteLAA / 2908 / FIVE-FIELDS-MINUTE2908
Founding papers
Minute establishing five fields of instruction
The Board adds strategic and command instruction without allowing advanced study to replace basic competence.
Library circularLAA / 2901 / MERIDIAN-ACCESSIONS2901
Meridian Library
Opening instructions for the Meridian Library
The opening library circular explains why teaching copies and operational originals are kept apart.
Reader instructionsLAA / 2956 / READER-COPY-POLICY2956
Meridian Library
Reading copies, corrections and citation
A guide to citing the public catalogue and identifying the limits of a reading copy.
AssessmentLAA / EX–399 / 29562956
Safety & assessment
Regulations for the Crucible
The Crucible depicts seventy-two hours of fictional operations. Actual player delivery uses agreed bounded sessions and relief, such as three two-hour sessions; there is no continuous attendance or endurance requirement. The phase hours below are scenario chronology, not a player timetable.
Register extractLAA / 2893 / FIRST-COMMISSION-RETURN2893
Founding papers
Return of the first commissioning ceremony
An office return separates the Academy’s first twelve recommendations from appointments made aboard the fleet flagship.
MemorandumLAA / 2891 / FIRST-INSTRUCTION2891
Founding papers
Soren’s memorandum on the first course
The founding Commandant allocates the Academy’s single lecture room and two simulation bays.
Teaching noteLAA / 2956 / TYROL-TEACHING-NOTE2956
Safety & assessment
Teaching the Tyrol losses
Instructions for using the 2931 memorial account without turning an incomplete record into a dramatic exercise.
Register instructionsLAA / 2956 / COIN-REGISTER2956
Buildings & traditions
The Academy coin: issue and register
The master and issued copies have different custodians and different uses.
Assessment instructionsLAA / 2956 / ASSESSMENT-RETURN2956
Safety & assessment
The assessment return and the second attempt
Assessors must identify what was demonstrated and what further practice is needed.
TraditionLAA / CER / retained text2956
Buildings & traditions
The earlier cadet oath
This is the earlier public ceremonial text, retained after the adoption of the revised 2956 induction. It is not the current oath or a statement of present examination rules.
TraditionLAA / CER–2956 / 022956
Buildings & traditions
The induction oath
The cadet oath binds excellence, discipline, and service to the trust of others. This revised ceremonial text preserves the voice of the earlier oath while making clear that duty requires conscience, lawful authority, and responsibility for one’s own decisions.
HistoryLAA / MEM–2931 / public note2956
Safety & assessment
The Tyrol memorial record
Cadet Third Class Marcus Hendricks and Cadet Third Class Tomas Vasari died during a navigational training exercise in the Tyrol belt in 2931. Their names remain in the Academy register.
Facility instructionsLAA / 2944 / WAR-ROOM-BRIEF2944
Buildings & traditions
The War Room: instructions to directing staff
The new teaching room requires a single exercise record even when several schools direct the problem.
The Neuhaus papers
Family correspondence, office copies and freight records from Heinrich Neuhaus’s lifetime are held in the corporate collection.
Consult the corporate archive →